Pierre
RIBARDIERE] (may be a subset of PSG); Walwari Committee [Christine
TAUBIRA-DELANON]

French Polynesia:
Centrist Union or UC [leader NA]; Independent
Front for the Liberation of Polynesia (Tavini Huiraatira) [Oscar
TEMARU]; New Fatherland Party (Ai'a Api) [Emile VERNAUDON]; People's
Rally for the Republic (Tahoeraa Huiraatira) [Gaston FLOSSE]

Gabon:
African Forum for Reconstruction or FAR [Leon MBOU-YEMBI];
Circle of Liberal Reformers or CLR [General Jean Boniface ASSELE];
Democratic and Republican Alliance or ADERE [Divungui-di-Ndinge
DIDJOB]; Gabonese Democratic Party or PDG, former sole party
[Simplice Nguedet MANZELA, secretary general]; Gabonese Party for
Progress or PGP [Pierre-Louis AGONDJO-OKAWE, president]; Gabonese
People's Union or UPG [Pierre MAMBOUNDOU]; Gabonese Socialist Union
or USG [Serge MBA BEKALE]; National Rally of Woodcutters (Bucherons)
or RNB [Fr. Paul M'BA-ABESSOLE]; People's Unity Party or PUP [Louis
Gaston MAYILA]; Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Pierre
EMBONI]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Pierre Claver
MAGANGA-MOUSSAVOU]

Gambia, The:
Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction
or APRC [Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH]; National Reconciliation Party or
NRP [Hamat N. K. BAH]; People's Democratic Organization for
Independence and Socialism or PDOIS [Sidia JATTA]; United Democratic
Party or UDP [Ousainou DARBOE]

note: in August 1996 the government banned the following from
participation in the elections of 1996: People's Progressive Party
or PPP [former President Dawda K. JAWARA (in exile)], and two
opposition parties - the National Convention Party or NCP [former
Vice President Sheriff DIBBA] and the Gambian People's Party or GPP
[Hassan Musa CAMARA]

Georgia:
Citizen's Union of Georgia or CUG [Eduard SHEVARDNADZE];
Georgian United Communist Party or UCPG [Panteleimon GIORGADZE,
chairman]; Industry Will Save Georgia or IWSG [Georgi TOPADZE];
National Democratic Party or NDP [Irina SARISHVILI-CHANTURIA];
Socialist Party or SPG [Temur GAMTSEMLIDZE]; Union for "Revival"
Party or AGUR [Alsan ABASHIDZE]; United Republican Party or URP
[Nodar NATADZE, chairman]

Germany:
Alliance '90/Greens [Renate KUENAST and Fritz KUHN];
Christian Democratic Union or CDU [Angela MERKEL]; Christian Social
Union or CSU [Edmund STOIBER, chairman]; Free Democratic Party or
FDP [Wolfgang GERHARDT, chairman